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FIVE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY BRAIN DISEASES ADMITTED AT CAPE COD HOSPITAL.

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Five patients were admitted at Cape Cod Hospital affected by rare brain diseases which is caused by spinal surgery carry out with a potentially contaminated instrument. This instrument was already been used at a New Hampshire hospital and patients also have been exposed.The type of instrument looks like a needle-shaped probably used for surgeous operations which is so strong in structures. It was used at Cathelic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H in May to function the operation on a patient. Later, a patient was got into Crentzfeldt-Jakob diseases who seems to be died.

The equipment borrowed from the manufacture by Cape Cod Hospital on June 7th 2013, said Robin Lord. The instrument used to operate for spinal operation on five patients. On August 28th 2013, the manufacture called Medtronic informed the Hyannis hospital that the equipment could be infected or unhygenic. Now, five patients who got under spinal operation used by those instrument were affected through fatal diseases, healthy official said.The diseases called Creutzfeldt-Jakob which destroyed the brain and take time to cure it. It leads by rapid mental deterioration which is similar to dementia and most people got into coma stage. It is not caused by any type of bacteria, a virus, or a fungus. Due to abnormal proteins called Prions it is been affected.